Strangers World

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Strangers World
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Studio album by Patty Larkin
Released 1995
Genre Folk rock
Length38:54
Label High Street
Producer John Leventhal, Patty Larkin
Patty Larkin chronology
Angels Running
(1993) Angels Running1993
Strangers World
(1995)
Perishable Fruit
(1997) Perishable Fruit1997

Strangers World (sometimes spelled Stranger's World) is the sixth album by Patty Larkin, a singer-songwriter from Iowa.

Patty Larkin American musician

Patty Larkin is a Boston-based singer-songwriter and guitarist, and a founding member of Four Bitchin' Babes. Her music has been described as folk-urban pop music.

Track listing

In the CD Jacket, next to each song title, Patty Larkin wrote brief explanations for each song:

  1. "Closest Thing" (A Meditation on the Truth)
  2. "Johnny Was A Pyro" (Once upon a time...)
  3. "Don't" (The confusion of thinking for yourself. Oh, yeah.)
  4. "Mary Magdalene" (I think I saw her coming out of the subway at Rush Hour)
  5. "Open Arms (Don't Explain)" (Dedicated, with love, to my mother and father)
  6. "Dear Diary" (Life is strange, but good (good,good,good).)
  7. "Danny" (Written after the Labor Day nor'easter that took the lives of four fisherman from Gloucester.)
  8. "Italy" (Thank you, John Gorka, for the first two lines (I'd like to go to Italy/Just to eat the food). I'll get there someday.)
  9. "Me And That Train" (A True Story)
  10. "When the Heavens Light Up" (Liz's song. Artist, musician, wearer of red lipstick, friend.)
  11. "Carolina" (Closing Prayer)

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